Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Problems at Green Island trials03 May 2005, Published under Cement NewsA new incineration plant designed to turn solid waste into ash for the manufacture of cement encountered technical problems during a trial run late last month, one of Hong Kong’s biggest cement makers admitted Tuesday. Green Island Cement was responding to Monday’s report in The HK Standard which revealed that harmful gases were released after problems occurred during the incinerator’s test run from April 21-25. Green Island’s general manager Choi Ka-keung admitted there were some problem... |
Cement firm plans to burn meat and bone meal25 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsLagan Cement, which operates a cement plant and quarries at Kinnegad, Co Meath, is proposing to burn meat and bone meal to replace up to 45 per cent of the coal currently burned at the plant. The sale of meat and bone meal has been banned in the Republic since 2000 amid fears that it is the contaminant which spreads the animal "mad cow" disease BSE, and its human equivalent CJD. There is no other licensed incinerator of meat and bone meal in the Republic. Stocks are stored or sen... |
Lithuania: Cementas seeks EU funds for environmental project19 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsAkmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement manufacturer, intends to invest over 20m litas (EUR 5.8m) in upgrading its pollutant filtering equipment over two years, with part of the funds expected to come from the EU’s structural funds. "We want to renew our equipment before tighter environmental pollution control legislation comes into force in the country in 2007," Akmenes Cementas CEO Arturas Zaremba said. The company is planning to buy filters for one of its furnaces and start upgrad... |
Baltsem to install equipment for neutralizing Hexavalent Chromium19 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), one of the three major cement producers in Ukraine, intends to install equipment for adding additives that neutralise hexavalent chromium to cement. A representative of the plant disclosed this to Ukrainian News. According to him, production of cement with additives that neutralise hexavalent chromium will enable the plant to export its cement to member-countries of the European Union, where the use of construction materials containing cancer... |
Cement plant to contain controversial dust pile19 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsDragon Products cement company plans to cap its 17-acre dust pile in midcoast Maine that has been the focus of lawsuits that have been filed by neighbors against the cement manufacturer. Terry Veysey, Dragon’s chief executive officer, said the company has been working with the state Department of Environmental Protection on ways to contain the 845,000-ton mound of dust. He says a formal plan was filed a few weeks ago with the department, but still has to go through a review process for... |
Burning sludge as a fuel could help cut pollution15 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsLehigh Cement Co. in Union Bridge hopes to be the first plant in North America to burn pelletized sludge as an alternative or supplemental fuel source to the coal that fires its cement kiln. A plan to fuel a kiln at a Carroll County cement factory with Baltimore sewage sludge would be the nation’s first use of so-called "biosolids" as an energy source - a technology that experts say holds great promise. "People have been trying to do something creative with human waste for a long time," s... |
Bacnotan forming consortium to take on geothermal projects14 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsBacnotan Consolidated Industries, Inc. plans to venture into the geothermal power business as the firm diversifies its interests after selling its cement holdings. Ramon del Rosario, Jr., president, said Bacnotan plans to form a consortium with foreign firms along with Phinma unit, Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp., as the lead company, to develop any of these geothermal projects: Palinpinon, Makban, and Tiwi. "We are interested in geother-mal projects. We may participate in the bi... |
HK plant clears technical hurdles to trial waste-burning14 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe Green Island Cement company has cleared all technical obstacles to a controversial trial on waste incineration this month. After months of dry runs - burning without waste input - and technical fine-tuning of an incinerator built inside a cement factory at Tap Shek Kok in Tuen Mun, the company says it is ready any time to test the burner with waste. A three to four-day trial is being scheduled this month with no more than 30 tonnes of waste to be burnt each day. The resulting ash wil... |
Sewage burn debate12 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsLehigh Cement Co. is proposing to use as much as 100tpd of pelletized sludge - known as a "biosolid" - as an alternative or supplement to the coal it burns in kilns at its factory in Union Bridge, in Western Carroll. Lehigh, which is based in Allentown, Pa., has asked Carroll County for zoning approval to build two 130ft silos, one of which would store as much as 400t of biosolids. The other would hold products for the company’s milling operation. Lehigh proposes to haul dried sludge b... |
Controversy surprises cement plant managers12 April 2005, Published under Cement NewsManagers of the Ash Grove Cement Co. plant say a controversy over use of industrial slag to make cement at the Holcim Inc. plant near Three Forks is surprising, because Ash Grove has used slag for 41 years. Slag from the Asarco Inc. smelter at East Helena has been in use since Ash Grove opened its plant less than 10 miles away in 1963, said Joe Scheeler, environmental health and safety manager. Slag from Asarco’s accumulation also went to Holcim. Last Monday, two environmental groups and ... |